Posts by sdbrownaia

I read the post twice and don't see how to convert them? What am I missing?

Has this been fixed in newer builds? we have another user experiencing this issue. I will tell him to try disabling the integrated graphics but wanted to see if there was a formal solution yet.

UPDATE 2: It appears the crash occurs only with duplicating assets of materials that enscapes material editior can see. If I duplicate the asset of a PBR material all is fine, it only crashes(revit vanishes) if I duplicate the asset of a generic material or other enscape viewable one.

UPDATE: Clearing my %temp% folder restored the Revit Material Browser to normal fast editing. there were about 80,000 dlllhost.exe files in there and they start coming back so I'm curious if anyone knows what they are.

I have some other symptoms which may or may not help you identify the problem. I have moved the enscape addin from the program data file and the crash goes away however the material browser in revit is now extremely slow to just go from material to material. It was not like this before I launched the enscape material browser. is there some "worker" or other interaction enscape does when installed regardless of wether or not the add in is in the addin folder? Note I have removed pyrevit too. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I am thinking we will have to go back to the enscape version prior to the enscape material editor. But I'm hopeful we can figure out where the conflict is. I have other users testing the same process and getting the same results. we are sending in the feedback. Thank you for working on this!!!

Any update on this, we are having this issue on multiple computers and telling the team they just have to remove enscape is not an answer they want to hear. Has anyone narrowed it down to a type of material that is the cause or is it just enscape and revit trying to access the material browser data at the same time that causes revit to disappear?

Enscape is still causing revit to disappear if in the material editor after seeing that pop out. I don't know how to send feedback after revit just disappears.

any solution on this yet? We are finding we have to disable enscape or revit 2022 performance is awful.

so thats what i have been doing basically to get around it, but I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. Basically I have to turn the light off and only use the self illuminating material. But I find that has some issues when hidden behind other items.

I have typically had good success with my cove light family if I set the "emit from length" parameter to match the length of the cove. It doesn't seem to work in enscape. does anyone know how to fix this?

See image below, the lights down the hall dont "resolve" like the rest in the hall, if you move closer and look at them, they correct, but from this vantage point you see the problem. Any solutions?

I had a similiar issue trying to light a football field at night the lights are mounted on poles very high above the field. I couldn't get the light correct. my guess is its this same issue. so another vote for some sort of fix to allow for long throw lights. Maybe a check box or something for specific fixtures instead of adjusting everything. Or use the naming like you have with grass and carpet. IE we rename our light fixture with some key work to let enscape know to adjust the settings only for lights with "long throw" in them or whatever term is most accurate.

Update: If I run Revit from my local admin account all is well. but I get the lock up after save if I run it in my normal log in. Also we are now having users with the same issue in 2018.

Yes i did update desktop connector but it didn't help mine I know it did for Dan. I'm going to reach out to him.

Its very frustrating as we can't isolate the cause. some machines have it running fine. mine hangs up. Not sure what the difference is. I did try the previous 2.8 preview version it caused the same issue. I guess most people are using enscape locally and not on BIM360 projects or most people its working.

One update is it seems to only do it saving to bim 360 in revit 2020. I can save revit 2019 to bim360 fine and revit 2020 to a local central fine. But save to bim 360 from 2020 locks up revit with what sounds like an open dialog box warning every time.

I just installed 2.8 and now after every save(even with enscape closed) revit 2020 freeze after the save to BIM360. Its still there but I can't do anything except ctrl+alt+delete. Anyone else seeing this behavior?

this just bit us pretty bad. some users had installed 2.7 only to find out they couldn't render more complex models in it so we rolled them back to 2.5. Now when they make exe. they cant play them. We are now having to decide how to fix this problem. IE do all machines need to roll back C++ and enscape to be safe? we know we need better graphics cards but we can't replace at this time. Any suggestions are welcome.

I would make your window header a sep. family(or part of the window family) and it would have a main extrustion thats material is your mortar material then use a face based brick family to create the bricks on top of it. I have a solid brick texture that is many bricks put together with no mortar. I do the same thing for radius'd brick details. takes a little time but provides the best realism.

For what its worth, I went down this road with Archvision content a couple years ago, making individual revit families for each RPC. took forever and in the end I don't think many users took advantage of it. And they keep making new content so keeping up with it is hard. So I can totally relate to you desire and frustration. It would be great if they had an easy way to provide this, but as the library will keep expanding(thank you Enscape!!!) you should be prepared to keep up your effort with each release. Or just leave well enough alone with the asset browser, because the 2nd problem I ran into is now you have to make your revit families available and searchable for your users, when enscape and in my situation archvision had already done this. I hated the naming convention when content was loaded, but at the end of the day I feel like it was a big waste of my time, however I knew what all the content was really well.